Ted Chiang is really all over the place quality-wise. Some stories get to Borges level, others seem like clumsy excuses for tedious pontificating. I’m about 70% done with the Exhalation collection. Title story is the best so far.

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But he’ll always have Stories Of Your Life And Others.

The "divergent timelines" story blew my mind. Made me ponder for a long time.

he’s extremely corny… but I thought some of it, like “Life of Software Objects” was good. It’s also a very easy read